This film has it all: The cop, the drugs, the cartel, and a priest(?) The cop troubled by the loss of his family, who works vice, who drinks and doesn't play by the rules. The drugs made into a statue, and put into a church by mistake. The cartel want it back. So the cop and the priest are gonna stop them. However these plot lines are put together with such a lack of skill that this film is irritating from the start.
The cartel import and sell drugs. They swear a lot and have guns. Some of them are quite muscled. None of them can fight. No scene involving the cartel is in any way memorable. The priest (Christian Slater) used to be special forces. Neither the cartel or the priest are well acted.
Okay, so the cop lost his family but just in case you can't pick up on that there's loads of flashback scenes of family together and too many more of them getting killed. He works vice he licks mysterious white powders to identify them. Yes, it really is that bad. And his drinking is not believable: there's lots of scenes of him drinking alcohol - hip flasks, mixing into coffee, washing down the aspirin while driving, etc - but never as much as would get anyone drunk. He doesn't play by the rules: he goes to a gun fight with only his fists, then he decides to face down a speeding car with armed folk inside shooting at him on foot with just his handgun, then he decides that the best course of action would be to ambush the cartel in the church with just him and the priest. Utter balls.
There's lots of shooting and people dying. There's drug use and sex but without any point. Most of it could have been implied and then this mess could have been shown on TV.
The end doesn't come soon enough.
The cartel import and sell drugs. They swear a lot and have guns. Some of them are quite muscled. None of them can fight. No scene involving the cartel is in any way memorable. The priest (Christian Slater) used to be special forces. Neither the cartel or the priest are well acted.
Okay, so the cop lost his family but just in case you can't pick up on that there's loads of flashback scenes of family together and too many more of them getting killed. He works vice he licks mysterious white powders to identify them. Yes, it really is that bad. And his drinking is not believable: there's lots of scenes of him drinking alcohol - hip flasks, mixing into coffee, washing down the aspirin while driving, etc - but never as much as would get anyone drunk. He doesn't play by the rules: he goes to a gun fight with only his fists, then he decides to face down a speeding car with armed folk inside shooting at him on foot with just his handgun, then he decides that the best course of action would be to ambush the cartel in the church with just him and the priest. Utter balls.
There's lots of shooting and people dying. There's drug use and sex but without any point. Most of it could have been implied and then this mess could have been shown on TV.
The end doesn't come soon enough.